Lactantius
- Born
- c. 250
- Died
- unknown; alive after 317
- Role
- Rhetorician and apologist
- Wrote in
- Latin
Contemporary timeline
His life beside those who lived in his time, from the year 230 to 380.
People
Events
- A person's life
- Estimated birth
- Unknown birth
- Known to be alive; death date unknown
- Event
- Received as ecumenical by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
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Who he was
An African teacher of rhetoric summoned by Diocletian to Nicomedia, who converted and lost his post in the Great Persecution. His Divine Institutes present the faith in polished Latin for educated readers, and in old age he tutored Constantine's son Crispus at Trier.
- Region
- North Africa
- Language
- Latin
- Role
- Rhetorician and apologist
- Died
- unknown; alive after 317
His writings
2 writings, c. 303–315
c. 303–311
c. 314–315